Greetings Fellow COLLINS Family Researchers & possible Cousins! We now have some 348 subscribers to the COLLINS Family Mail List and I will wager that I'm not alone in being curious as to the number of different COLLINS families that we may be researching! I posed this question to the WILCOX Family Mail List about a week ago, and thus far several of us have been able to identify other mail list subscribers who were also researching the same family! If we are able to achieve anything approaching the response on that mail list, then some of us may likely be able to greet some of our fellow COLLINS Family Mail List Subscribers for the first time ever with the fond greeting, "Hello Cousin!" Should there be several of us who happen to researching the same family, might it not be of benefit for us to work with as many others who share a mutual interest and possibly even mutual descent, in cooperatively researching that particular COLLINS family's descendants. Would each of you who have managed to trace a COLLINS family back to that family's Immigrant Ancestor, please be so kind as to post your family's descent from that Immigrant Ancestor down to about 1900 if you would. Please try to include names, dates, and locations as often as possible, so that some of our subscribers might possibly be able to identify potential family connections, even if they have not as yet been able to research back to an Immigrant COLLINS ancestor! Descendants of Francis COLLINS and Mary BUDD 1. Francis1 COLLINS , born 6 Jan 1635 in Woolvercote, Oxford, ENG; died 3 Aug 1720 in Northampton, Burlington, NJ. He married on 4 Feb 1687 in , Burlington, NJ, Mary BUDD , born abt. 1668, daughter of Thomas BUDD and Susannah SENIOR. Generation 2 2. John2 COLLINS (Francis1), born 1692 in , , NJ. He married Ruth WOOLSTON . Generation 3 3. Susannah3 COLLINS (John2, Francis1), born 1718 in , , NJ; died 1809 in , , NJ. She married in 1737, Daniel GARWOOD , born 1710 in , , NJ; died 1784 in , Burlington, NJ; buried in Upper Evesham, Burlington, NJ, son of Thomas GARWOOD and Margaret HANCOCK. Generation 4 4. John4 GARWOOD (Susannah3 COLLINS, John2, Francis1), born 1740 in Evesham, Burlington, NJ; died 1819 in Perry TWP, Logan, OH; buried in , Logan, OH. He married on 6 Mar 1764 in , Burlington, NJ, Esther HAINES , born 5 Nov 1745 in , , NJ; died 1811 in , Logan, OH; buried in , Logan, OH, daughter of Carlile HAINES and Sarah MATLACK. Generation 5 5. Levi5 GARWOOD (John4, Susannah3 COLLINS, John2, Francis1), born 1773 in Washington, Culpeper, VA; died 28 Sep 1845 in , Logan, OH; buried in East Liberty, Logan, OH. He married on 6 Dec 1795 in , Culpeper, VA, Sarah INSKEEP , born 1776 in , Culpeper, VA; died 10 May 1850 in , Logan, OH; buried in East Liberty, Logan, OH, daughter of James INSKEEP and Hope COLLINS. Generation 6 6. William6 GARWOOD (Levi5, John4, Susannah3 COLLINS, John2, Francis1), born 26 May 1804 in , Culpeper, VA; died 1875 in Penn TWP, Cass, MI; buried in , Cass, MI. He married on 22 Dec 1824 in , Logan, OH, Elizabeth BROWN , born 21 Nov 1805 in , , NC; died in , , MO; buried in , , MO, daughter of John BROWN and Mariam BUNDY. Generation 7 7. Samatha E.7 GARWOOD (William6, Levi5, John4, Susannah3 COLLINS, John2, Francis1), born 4 Feb 1842 in , Logan, OH; died 9 Feb 1923 in Foster, Bates, MO; buried 11 Feb 1923 in , Bates, MO. She married on 5 Feb 1862 in Cassopolis, Cass, MI, Samuel Bingham BROOKS , born 28 Jun 1836 in Syracuse, Onondaga, NY; died 9 Dec 1911 in Jefferson TWP, Cass, MI; buried in Volinia TWP, Cass, MI, son of Mark F. BROOKS and Mary Catharine WILCOX. Generation 8 8. Ida Adelia8 BROOKS (Samatha E.7 GARWOOD, William6, Levi5, John4, Susannah3 COLLINS, John2, Francis1), born 16 Oct 1869 in Big Creek TWP, Cass, MO; died 24 Jan 1944 in Worland, Bates, MO; buried 26 Jan 1944 in , Bates, MO. She married on 31 Dec 1889 in Harrisonville, Cass, MO, George Noah CRAIG , born 10 Feb 1866 in Macomb, McDonough, IL; died 21 Apr 1956 in Nevada, Vernon, MO; buried in , Bates, MO, son of William Jackson CRAIG and Sarah Rebecca POINTER. Generation 9 9. George Bingham9 CRAIG (Ida Adelia8 BROOKS, Samatha E.7 GARWOOD, William6, Levi5, John4, Susannah3 COLLINS, John2, Francis1), born 30 Jan 1895 in Raymore, Cass, MO; died 16 Apr 1975 in Ft. Scott, Bourbon, KS; buried 19 Apr 1975 in Nevada, Vernon, MO. He married on 10 May 1920 in Lamar, Barton, MO, Adah Belle DORY , born 22 Oct 1901 in Harrison TWP, Vernon, MO; died 21 Nov 1969 in Ft. Scott, Bourbon, KS; buried 24 Nov 1969 in Nevada, Vernon, MO, daughter of Joshua Wragg DORY and Mary Belle YALEY. How many cousins may each of us have who are current subscribers to the COLLINS Family Mail List and are not as yet aware of each other? Thank you for your patience, cooperation, and participation in the COLLINS Family Mail List! TTYL Craig crb@ponyexpress.net List Adm for COLLINS-L and COLLINS-D Craig BEEMAN 518 N. 24th St. Joseph, MO 64501 ph. (816)233-0884 In Search of Immigrant Ancestors and their Descendants for the more than 325 Ancestral Family Surnames that our family descends from between 1617 and 1838. List Adm: BARBER, BURNS, CLARKE, COLLINS, GRAY, HARPER, MORGAN, PRICE, SHENANDOAH, THOMAS, TOWNE, and WILCOX Family Mail Lists through rootsweb.com